SilverWook said:
TheBoost said:
My abusive relationship with EU novels continues, and I finished the newest novel set a billion years before "Star Wars" where everything is still more or less exactly the same as in "Star Wars."
Originallity check... what do we have:
- Sith lord with a breath mask? Check.
- Smuggler with a heart of gold? Check.
- Young Jedi tempted to the dark side? Check.
- Evil Empire/Noble Republic? Check.
But ultimately I liked the tale. It was a very SMALL story compared to your average EU novel. It followed four characters, and primarily involved their personal confilct against the backdrop of galactic struggle. No super weapons, no huge battles. Just characters with realistic goals (revenge, money).
One beef with it was that it was largely based on the bad-ass trailer video to the "Old Republic" MMORPG. There's a lengthy chapter that describes the trailer in minute detail, and I'm fine with that, but it includes a lot about the girl-Boba Fett from the video, who then does not appear in the novel.
Worse, later in the book it has a character WATCH the video recording of the trailer frame-by-frame, so it's all described in minute detail a second time.
Still, one of the more enjoyable EU novels I've read in a while. One I'd actually reccomend.
A BILLION years!? Seriously? Are the Jedi like the Nibblonians now? Even the "First Ones" on Babylon 5 aren't that old!
He's just exaggerating. This Old Republic brouhaha takes place around 3000 years before the movies.